Prager Video

I thought I was the only one that opined that socialism makes people more selfish and that capitalism makes people less selfish.

I just watched a three year old video narrated by Dennis Prager in which he plainly announces that capitalism makes people less selflish and socialism makes them more selfish, and he is right here.

Both he and I believe people are innately wicked, and must be taught to be good. He misunderstands what evil is, and it is selflessness. Self-centered people are selfish, mean, self-hating and other hating, and in packs are capable to huge cruelty towards outsiders and group victims.

He defines goodness as selflessness, generosity, other-interest more than self-interest. I define goodness as egoistic, not altruistic, as self-centered and unselfish, not other-centered and selfish. Enlightened self-interest trumps other-interest.

With these qualifications and explannations laid out, I must admire how nicely he lays out the case in this video that socialism makes people selfish and dependent on government and their parents, parasites only looking to get more and more free goodies that they have been taught that they are entitled to without any exertion at all. For the government to take care of them makes them selfish, to demand more, not work for more or offer more. They are taught, come to believe and assert that their entitlements are their rights that they are entitled too, which they need not feel grateful for. They are bad people, unhappy and ungrateful, and the welfare state made them this way, Dennis argues.

He explains that capitalism, the free market economy and profit motive produce a work force and citizens that are responsible, working, self-sufficient and unselfish. They know that have to work more if they want more.

Once again, Dennis nails it.